The Dark Side...

300,000 children are trafficked in the U.S. by Americans-from "Playground"

This is a blog that may be hard to digest at the table...

"Promise a girl heaven and she will follow you to hell?" This was a quote that was spoken by a pimp in one of the Dallas papers. It is this phrase that truly gives the essence of a Pimp's mindset. Many people feel that Prostitution is a when two adults have consented to sex, so what's the big deal??
The big deal is that most of the time these are children and have no ability to consent. Average age of a child in the sex industry is 12-14 years of age. These children are lured or kidnapped and then threatened to stay with the pimp. He is controlling in much the same way a person does in an abusive relationship. There is the break down to emotional abuse, then dehumanize them and then isolate them from the society. They are given drugs to numb the pain and hurt and also to make them do more sexual acts. It's a silent war that rages every day that American has yet to fully acknowledge is happening in our backyard. When will American start spending more of their money domestic human trafficking instead of defense??
I'm not making this stuff up friends, I have heard stories of women being raped by family members and sold to make money for the family, or thrown out on the street with no money and no shelter.
"It's going to take a village" is what I hard someone say at a conference this week talking about this issue. I would have to agree its going to take people from the lobbying to the out in the streets helping them recover their lives. I'm not sure if this will ever be completely gone, but one thing I do know as Mother Teresa said, "If you can't feed 100 people than just feed one."

"He reached down from on high and took hold of me;he drew me out of deep waters. He rescued me from my powerful enemy,from my foes, who were too strong for me.
They confronted me in the day of my disaster,but the LORD was my support. He brought me out into a spacious place;he rescued me because he delighted in me." (2 Samuel 22:18-20)

Think back in the ways God has rescued you from the darkness you found yourself, the times you went your own way. God brought you out of those and so we need to remember He rescued us, we are to remember who we were, and now it's our duty to rescue those we see daily getting thrown to the waste side.